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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$260	Start Anytime	Open	Details	Sharpening your skills before you start university can improve your performance, reduce stress, and allow you to accomplish more with your time. The right academic skills can also help you handle the commitments and challenges of university life so you can feel successful - and enjoy life as a first-year student.
	Online	$650	Start Anytime	Open	Details	Learn the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the Amazon Web Services platform. Explore storage, compute, database, networking, caching and security services. Diagram decoupled architectures, design microservices and plan for disasters.
	Online	$350	Start Anytime	Open	Details	Get a real-world understanding of cloud computing concepts in the context of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Understand AWS core services, security, architecture, pricing and support.
	Online	$50	Start Anytime	Open	Details	This is a condensed version of a popular full-semester credit course offered at Queen's University. It was developed by Dr. Anne Duffy, MSc, MD, FRCPC, an academic psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Student Mental Health at Queen’s University as a resource to help high school students preparare for university life.
	Online	$260	Start Anytime	Open	Details	Maximize your chances of getting into the Canadian university of your choice in this dynamic, interactive and personalized course. Over eight self-paced weeks, learn step-by-step how to write memorable and convincing university undergraduate applications for Canadian universities that catch the attention of admissions committees.
	Online	$740 - $760	Oct 29, 2024	Open	Details	Take on more complex communication scenarios in this advanced course. Gain strategies to write purposeful and effective emails, letters, reports, proposals and other complex documents. Learn how to analyze challenging employer and client communication tasks, and discover different approaches to addressing business, technical and non-technical audiences. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Business Communication or as a standalone course.
	Online	$430 - $450	Oct 29, 2024	Open	Details	Go beyond the essentials of grammar in this advanced grammar course. Take on trickier, more challenging grammar rules so you can review writing with a critical eye, write for different contexts and express yourself clearly.
	Online	$440 - $450	Oct 29, 2024	Open	Details	Learn how to write well-constructed sentences and effective paragraphs. Topics include tips for devising clear, concise sentences, and avoiding common mistakes such as faulty parallelism, fragments, run-on sentences and dangling and misplaced modifiers. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Grammar and Style or as a standalone course.
	Online	$440 - $450	Oct 29, 2024	Open	Details	Learn how to apply the fundamental rules of writing to produce text that is not only correct, but also coherent, emphatic and elegant. Practise revising text by analyzing and diagnosing common problems. Topics include clarity in complexity, balance and symmetry, and nuances of sentence length and rhythm. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Grammar and Style or as a standalone course.
	In-Person Online	$440 - $455	Oct 30, 2024	Open	Details	Designed especially for professionals whose first language is not English, this fast-paced and dynamic course empowers you to improve your conversational skills for today's business environment. Develop the confidence to feel successful in one-on-one discussions, workplace meetings, interviews and business negotiations.
	Online	$440 - $455	Oct 30, 2024	Open	Details	Address more complex workplace communication scenarios. Gain more advanced skills and fluency for negotiating, interviewing and leading meetings and teams. Practise your presentation and public speaking skills, and acquire the language and business vocabulary you need for leading others, teambuilding and training or teaching.
	Online In-Person	$365 - $375	Nov 2, 2024	Open	Details	Learn to communicate with clarity and confidence in a variety of workplace, professional and personal settings. Understand how native English speakers handle conversations at work fluently and effectively by using appropriate words and vocabulary, implied meanings and non-verbal communication.
	Online	$425 - $435	Nov 5, 2024	Open	Details	Learn how to analyze your readers’ needs and to plan and draft documents that meet those needs. Practise seven techniques for clear, memorable writing. This course can be taken as part of the UBC Micro-certificate in Writing and Communication Skills for the Workplace: Grammar and Style or as a standalone course.
	In-Person	$60	Nov 6, 2024	Join Waitlist	Details	Thousands of Canadians belong to the DeafBlind community. While many community members use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate, there is an increasing prioritization of touch-based communication to better suit the community’s needs. Learning how to incorporate touch as a core linguistic and cultural feature is a key step in getting to know and understand the DeafBlind community.
	Online	$425 - $475	Nov 12, 2024	Open	Details	Build awareness around the ways in which white supremacy manifests as our workplaces grow more diverse, and take a close look at the impact that white supremacy has on both individuals and systems. Reflect on the tensions between the desire to champion anti-racism while experiencing the privileges that whiteness confers.

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